Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Who Knew ? Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:39:54 +0100 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:39:54 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5611e0b4a7d8d8999517fd8c39f61b26"; logging-data="24810"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Wv+YQO4V7mZjEUxsQyCr5LRAfpU/I890=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:3plozNpTnpTx12IA8p05zqc7dbg= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:33446 On 28/10/2021 06:11, 1p166 wrote: > Never diss emergent properties of complex systems. Well indeed, Of course as everybody knows, the world *as we know it* is an emergent property of consciousness... I trump your Cartesian Realism with Transcendental Idealism! -- "The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." - Leo Tolstoy